The dihydride pincer complex [IrH2(POCOP)] reacts with surface silanols of mesoporous silica (SBA-15) to give the coordinatively unsaturated, yet stable hydridesiloxo Ir(III) species [IrH(O-SBA-15)(POCOP)]. The silica-grafted complex catalyses the hydrogenation of ethene and propene at low temperature and pressure without prior activation.

A 1%Ni/SBA-15(P) catalyst was synthesized with a P123-assisted impregnation method, which exhibited high CO2 conversion and stability in the reverse water-gas shift reaction. For catalyst, TEM TPR characterizations demonstrated that highly dispersed NiO particles at about 3 nm strongly interacted SiO2 support. During reaction, higher than 1%Ni/SBA-15 prepared by conventional method without P123...

In this study, the mesoporous silica SBA-15 materials containing carboxylic acid groups were used as an effective support to synthesize Cu nanoparticles. Various Cu loading levels from 4% to 13% on SBA-15 catalysts produced an average particle size of 2.8 to 3.1 nm, regardless of the Cu content.

Bovine heart cytochrome c has been immobilized into the mesoporous silica host material SBA-15 in both its native folded and urea-unfolded state. The comparison of the two folding states' behavior casts doubt on the commonly used explanation of cytochrome c adsorption, that is, the electrostatic interaction model. A detailed investigation of the protein binding as a function of pH and ionic str...

In a physically confined environment, interfacial interactions, symmetry breaking, structural frustration and confinement-induced entropy loss can play dominant roles in determining molecular organization. Here we present a systematic study of the confined assembly of silica-surfactant composite mesostructures within cylindrical nanochannels of varying diameters. Using exactly the same precurso...

The local structure of vanadium oxide supported on nanostructured SiO2 (VxOy/SBA-15) was investigated by in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Because the number of potential parameters in XAS data analysis often exceeds the number of "independent" parameters, evaluating the reliability and significance of a particular fitting procedure is mandatory. The number of independent parameters ...

Amino-functionalized SBA-15 type mesoporous silicas having unique hexagonal platelet morphologies with short channels (100-300 nm) running parallel to the thickness of the nanostructured hexagonal platelet type morphologies have been directly synthesized by co-condensation of aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) and sodium metasilicate as a silica source in the presence of Pluronic P123 triblock ...

Mesoporous SBA-15 functionalized with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminogens serves as an efficient and recyclable fluorescent sensor for the detection of picric acid (PA), with a quenching constant of up to 2.5 × 10(5) M(-1) in a water solution, presenting a new model for the supersensitive detection of explosives.

Use of amphiphilic triblock copolymers to direct the organization of polymerizing silica species has resulted in the preparation of well-ordered hexagonal mesoporous silica structures (SBA-15) with uniform pore sizes up to approximately 300 angstroms. The SBA-15 materials are synthesized in acidic media to produce highly ordered, two-dimensional hexagonal (space group p6mm) silica-block copolym...

The state of vanadium ions in VxOy/SBA-15 (2.7 wt % V) was studied with FTIR spectroscopy using CO and NO as probe molecules. Neither CO (at 85 K) nor NO (at RT) adsorb on the oxidized sample because of the coordinative saturation of V5+ ions and the covalent character of the V5+=O bond. After treatment of the sample in 50 kPa H2 at 673 K, the V5+ ions are reduced to two different types of V3+ ...